PROCEEDINGS AND 


01)' THE 



Commiite on % Memorial to Congress, 


APPOINTED BY A 


MEETING OF CITIZENS AT THE ROOMS OF 
THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, 


FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1861. 


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NEW YORK: 

R. C. ROOT, ANTHONY & CO., 16 NASSAU STREET. 
1861. 


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PROCEEDINGS 

OF THE 

Committal oit % HhmorM to Congrm, 

APPOINTED BY A MEETING OF CITIZENS AT THE ROOMS OF THE 
CHAMBER OF, COMMERCE, 

FRIDAY, JANUARY 18, 1861. 

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The Memorial of the. Subscribers) Citizens of the State of New 
York, respectfully showeth : 

That, while sharing in common with our fellow-citizens, the 
general solicitude at the dangers, which are now threatening the 
peace and unity of our country, they desire to give their urgent 
and emphatic expression of the necessity which seems to exist for 
mutual conciliation and compromise, and without discussion as 
* to the merits of the various questions at issue, believing that the 
perpetuity of the Union of these United States as one nation, is 
of vastly more importance than the establishment or rejection of 
thisr or that subject of controversy, and that the people of the 
North will approve of the general .outline of the plan of compro- 
mise agreed upon by the Senators and Representatives of the 
Border States. 

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Your memorialists humbly pray that such measures may be 
speedily adopted by Congress, for the settlement of our present 
difficulties, as will embrace substantially the plan of compromise 
so Recommended by the Representatives of the Border States, 
and which, they believe, will restore tranquillity and peace to our 
now distracted country. 


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Resolutions Adopted, Friday, January 18, 1861. 

I. — Resolved , That a Committee be appointed to circulate 
the foregoing Memorial for signatures, and to have the city, and,, 
as far as practicable, the State, canvassed for that purpose. 

II. — Resolved , That a Committee of our most influential citi- 
zens, irrespective of party, be appointed, with power to add to 
their number, to take charge of the Memorial when signed, and 
forward or present the same at Washington, in such manner as 
they may deem most judicious, using their influence for the settle- 
ment of the existing National difficulties. 


III. — Resolved , That a copy of this call and the proceedings 
of this meeting be forwarded to each of the Senators and Repre- 
sentatives of this State in Congress, and also to each of the 
Senators and Representatives in our State Legislature. 


Committee appointed by the Chairman, on the First Resolution. 


SIMEON BALDWIN, 
NATHANIEL SANDS, 

JACOB ANTHONY, Jr., 

F. S. LATHROP, 

JOHN R. 


D. HENRY HAIGHT, 
THEODOSIUS BARTOW, 
HUGH AUCHINCLOSS, 
SAMUEL HALL. 
VOORHIS, 


Committee appointed by the Chairman, on the Second Resolution. 


A. A. LOW, 

LUTHER BRADISH, 
PELETIAH PERIT, 

PETER COOPER, 

WILLIAM E. DODGE, 

HENRY A. SMYTHE, 
WILLIAM H. ASPINWALL, 
WILLIAM A. BOOTH, 

E. E. MORGAN, 

EDWIN* 


R. C. ROOT, 

JAMES HARlUR, 
ROYAL PHELPS, 
SAMUEL D. BABCOCK, 
WM. W. DE FOREST, 

E. H. GILLILAN, 
HENRY A. HURLBUT, 
WILSON G. HUNT, 
WALDEN PELL, 

HOYT. 


WILLIAM a: BOOJH, 

Chairman of the Meeting. 
SIMEON. BALDWIN, 


Secretary of the Meeting. 


MINUTES OF MEETING APPOINTING SPECIAL 
COMMITTEE. 

Friday , January 25, 1861. 

An adjourned meeting of the Committee on the Memorial to 
Congress met on Friday, January 25, at 1 o’clock, P. M., at 
the Chamber of Commerce. 

Present, eighteen. 

Oq motion it was 

Resolved , That the Committee to visit Washington on Mon- 
day next consist of at least twenty-five gentlemen. 

• SECOND. 

Resolved , That a Committee of five be appointed by the 
Chairman, to prepare a basis of agreement to be adopted by this 
Committee, which they will recommend to Congress during their 
proposed visit in Washington; and that this basis or agreement 
be submitted at an adjourned meeting to-morrow. 

In pursuance of this resolution the following members were 
selected : 

1. LUTHER BRADISH, 3. WILLIAM E. DODGE, 

2. WILLIAM A. BOOTH, . 4. A. A. LOW, 

5. ROYAL PHELPS. 

On motion, Mr. Bradish declining on account of his health 
to serve as Chairman, Mr. A. A. Low was elected in his place. 


BEPOBT OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE. 

Saturday , January 26, 1861. 

The Special Committee, to whom was assigned the duty of 
digesting and presenting a proper basis of action for the Com- 
mittee charged witfc the presentation to Congress of the Memorial 
of Citizens of New- York, praying that such measures maybe 
adopted by Congress as will restore tranquillity and peace to our 
now distracted country, beg leave respectfully to report, — 


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That, since the last meeting of the Memorial Committee, a 
legislative printed Document has been received, stated to embrace 
Propositions for an adjustment of pending difficulties between the 
Northern and Southern States, agreed upon by a Committee pf 
the Border States, including Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, 
Kentucky, Missouri, and North Carolina, from the South ; and 
New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois, from the 
North. These Propositions contemplate both Acts of Legisla- 
tion and Amendments of the Constitution, and which, with somq. ; 
modifications and additions, are as follows, and which the Speciaf 
Committee adopt as part of this their Deport, which they submit 
for the consideration of the Memorial Committee, and respect- 
fully recommend for their adoption as the basis of their action 
under the Memorial, and in furtherance of its objects : 

"JOINT RESOLUTION” 

Proposing certain Amendments to the Constitution of the 
United States. 

Whereas serious and alarming dissensions have arisen be- 
tween the Northern and Southern States concerning the rights, and 
security of the rights of the slaveholding States, and especially 
their rights in the common Territory of the United States ; and 
whereas it is eminently desirable and proper that those dissen- 
sions, which now threaten the very existence of fc thi§ Union, 
should be permanently quieted and settled by constitutional 
provisions, which shall do equal justice to all sectipns, and 
thereby restore to the people that- peace and good will which 
ought to prevail between all the citizens of the United States : 
Therefore— 

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled , two-thirds 
of both Houses concurring , That the following articles be, and 
are hereby, proposed and submitted as amecRiments to the Con- 
stitution of the United States, which shall be valid to all intents 
and purposes as part of said Constitution, when ratified by con- 
ventions of three-fourths of the several States : 




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Article 1. That Congress shall have no power to legislate 
touching persons held to service or labor in places under its ex- 
clusive jurisdiction wiftiin the limits of States which have made 
cessions to' the United States, without the consent of the State 
or States making such grants. 

Article 2. That in all the present Territory of the United 
.States, situate north of latitude, thirty-six degrees thirty min- 
utes, slavery or involuntary servitude, except as a punishment 
for .crime, shall be prohibited while such Territory shall re- 
main under territorial government. That in all the present Ter- 
ritory of the United States south of said line, neither Congress, 
nor any territorial Legislature, shall hereafter pass any law 
abolishing or prohibiting, or in any manner interfering with 
African slavery ; and when any such Territory north or south of 
said line, within such boundaries as Congress , may prescribe, in 
any area of sixty thousand square miles, shall contain a popula- 
tion entitling it to one member of Congress, and shall apply for 
admission, as a State, into the Union, it shall come in on an 
equality with the other States, with or without slavery, as its 
constitution may determine. 

Article 3. That the laws for the suppression of the Afri- 
can slave - trade ought to be made effectual, and ought to be 
thoroughly executed ; and that the importation of slaves from 
abroad htfo ^he United States or its Territories is prohibited 
perpetually. 

Article 4. Congress shall have no power to prohibit the 
removal or transportation of persons held to service or labor 
from any State, in which such service or labor is recognized, 
by law, to another State in which such service or labor is so 
recognized. ** 

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v Article 5. Qingress shall have no power to regulate, 
abolish, or control within the States, the relations established 
or recognized by the law of any State respecting persons held to 
service or labor by the laws thereof. 


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Article 6. That no Territory shall be acquired by the Unit- 
ed States, without the consent of three-fourths of the members of 
the Senate. 

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And whereas, also, besides those causes of dissension embraced 
in the foregoing amendments proposed to the Constitution^ 
of the United States, there are others which come within 
the jurisdiction of Congress, and may be remedied by rts 
legislative power ; and whereas it is the desire of Congress,, 
as far as its power extends, to remove all just cause for the 
popular discontent and agitation which now disturb the peace 
of the country, and threaten the stability of its institutiois : 
Therefore — - 

1. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of 
the United States of America in Congress assembled , That the 
laws now in force for the recovery of fugitive slaves are in strict * 
pursuance of the plain and mandatory provisions of the Con- 
stitution, and have been sanctioned as valid and constitutional by 

the judgment of the Supreme Court of the United States that 
the slaveholding States are entitled to the faithful observance 
and execution of those laws, and that they ought not to be re- 
pealed or so modified or changed as to impair their efficiency ; 
and that laws ought to be made for the punishment of those who 
attempt, by rescue of the slave or other illegal means, to hinder 
or defeat the due execution of said laws. 

2. That all State laws which conflict with the fugitive slave 
acts, or any other constitutional acts of Congress, or which in 
their operation impede, hinder, or delay the free course and due 
execution of any of said acts, are null and void by the plain 
provisions of the Constitution of the United States, and we re- 
spectfully and earnestly recommend to the several States which * 
have enacted them their immediate repeal. 

3. That the act of the eighteenth of. September, eighteen 
hundred and fifty, commonly known as “ The fugitive slave 
law” ought to be amended so as to provide for its more com- • ; 
plete and efficient operation, and that such amendments should 


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provide, among other things, for the prevention of kidnapping 
under it, and to equalize the fees of the commissioner mentioned 

in the eighth section thereof. 

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4. That an act be passed, directing that the demand for the 
surrender of fugitives from justice, or from service or labor, be 
made to the United States District Judge of the State and 
District in which such fugitive may be found, thereby to make 
the right of surrender, in every case, a judicial question, and 
thus secure justice and uniformity of decision. 

*5’. That an act be passed punishing marauding expeditions 
from any State or Territory of this Union against the people of 
any other State or Territory, and also punishing the setter on 
foot or organization of such expedition, or making preparations 
therefor. 

All which i3 respectfully submitted. 

A. A. LOW, 

L. BRADISII, 

W. E. DODGE, 
ROYAL PHELPS, 

WM. A. BOOTH. 


At $ paeeting of the Committee of citizens at the rooms of 
the Chamber of Commerce, New York, Saturday, January 26, 
1861, the preceding Report was unanimously adopted, and a 
Committee, consisting of thirty gentlemen, was authorized to 
proceed to Washington and urge the said Report upon the con- 
sideration of Congress. 

A. A. LOW, Chairman . 

J. SMITH HOMANS, Secretary. 

New Yobk, January^ 6 , 1861. 


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COMMITTEE ON MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS. 

New York, January 26, 1861. 


LUTHER BRADISH, 

E. H. GILLILAN, 
JAMES HARPER, 

D. HENRY HAIGHT, 
WILSON G. HUNT, 
HENRY A. HURLBUT, 
R. L. KENNEDY, 
DANIEL LORD, 

A. A. LOW, 

F. S. LATHROP, 

JOHN J. PHELPS, 
ROYAL PHELPS, 
GEORGE S. ROBBINS, 
R. C. ROOT, 
NATHANIEL SANDS, 
HENRY A. SMYTHE, 
JONATHAN STURGES, 


F. S. WINSTON, 

HENRY YOUNG, 

A. R. WETMORE, 

E. E. MORGAN, 

HUGH AUCHINCLOSS, 
WM. Y. BRADY, 

JAMES M. BROWN, ' 
WILLIAM A. BOOTH, 
THEODOSIUS BARTOW, 
SAMUEL D. BABCOCK, 
PETER COOPER, * 
WILLIAM E. DODGE, 
JOHN C. GREEN, 
JAMES GALLATIN, " 
DANIEL LOW, 

S. B. CHITTENDEN, 
EDWARD LEARNED, 


AMOS R. ENO. 


Meeting of the Committee, Feb. 8, 1861, to receive 
the Report of the Committee on Memorial to" 
Congress. 

Friday , February 8, 1861. 

The Committee of citizens on the Memorial to Congress met 
Friday, February 8, at 12 o’clock. 

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Mr. Wm. A. Booth in the Chair. 

Mr. A. A. Low read a report of the proceedings of the Com- 
mittee on their late visit to Washington, signed by the Chairman 

and others. .... 

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On motion of Mr. Perit, seconded by Mr. Latiirop, the re- 
port read by Mr. Low was unanimously accepted. * * 

On motion, duly seconded, the report was adopted. Remarks 



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wpre made by Messrs. Latiirop, Gallatin, Low, Perit, John 
J. ?iielps, Morgan, Winston, Tileston, and Chittenden. 

On motion of Mr. Winston, it was 
Resolved , That the Report presented by Mr. Low, the Chair- 
man of the Committee to visit Washington, and just adopted, be 
referred to the Committee on Printing, for publication, with such 
other document's of this Committee as they may deem proper and 
expedient.” 

Mr.- Low was added to the Committee of five on printing. 



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REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE. 
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The Committee of twenty-five appointed at a 
meeting^ eld at the rooms of the Chamber of Com- 
merce of the State of New York, on the 18th nit., 
“ to take charge of the Memorial (then adopted) 
when signed, and forward or present the same at 
^Washington in such manner as they may deem 
most judicious, using their influence for the settle- 
ment of existing difficulties/’ beg leave to report : — 

That, pursuant to the instructions thus conveyed 
to them, they left the city of New York on Monday, 
the 28th ult., and arrived in Washington on the 
evening of the next day. 

Agreeably to appointment, on the morning of 
^Wednesday the 28 th January, they went in a body 
to the house of the Honorable William H. Seward, 
to whom they stated that they were the bearers of 
a Memorial signed by 38,000 or more of their 
fellow-citizens, soliciting Congress to adopt some 
measures which would be adequate to the settle- 
ment of our national difficulties, and handed to him 
the ^report ” of the Sub-Committee adopted in 
New York, Saturday, January 26th. 


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They represented, as fully as they were able to 
do, the great importance attached to the settlement 
of our national difficulties, by the community from 
which they came, and urged with all their power 
the wisdom of tendering to the South the utmost 
concessions that could be made consistently with 
honor and principle. .* , 

They endeavored, in a becoming manner, to 
present the claims of the commercial emporium to 
be heard at this juncture as the source^of racuniary 
power, and the chief reliance of the Government in 
times of pecuniary need. 

Having been permitted to give a full and free 
statement of their views, the Honorable Senator 
favored your Committee with an interesting account 
of past events and present prospects in connection 
with his own position, and defined the limitations 
within which he must restrict himself in presenting 
their memorial to the Senate of the United States. 

In regard to the issue of the pending contro- 
versy, he expressed the confident hope, that, through 
the conciliatory and peaceful action of the incoming 
administration, the South would be won back to a " 
higher regard for the Union, — a union to which she 
is invited to return by a recollection of the mani- 
fold blessings enjoyed in the past, and in whose 
honor and renown she must ever * have a real and 
abiding interest, despite the manifestations of pas- 
sion now so rife in certain quarters of the country. 
On the afternoon of the same day, your Com- 

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mittee had an interview with the Honorable 
Preston King, at which a* similar line of argument 
was adopted and amplified.- To which the Hon- 
orable Senator responded — displaying, throughout, 
a somewhat lengthy exposition of his views, a 
marked and considerate courtesy, and a frankness 
that left up room to doubt his adherence to opin- 
ions adopted many years ago, and consistently held 
ever since. 

On Thursday, January 31st, the Memorial was 
•presented* to the Senate, members of your Com- 
mittee attending "in the gallery as witnesses of the 
ceremony. 

The Honorable Senator from New York accom- 
panied the presentation with a speech, which has 
since appeared in prmt, together with the debate 
which it called forth. 

At three o’clock of the same day your Com- 
mittee invited a conference with members of the 
border States, and they had the pleasure of meeting, 
in one of the Committee rooms of the Capitol, 
representatives from North Carolina, Maryland, 
Virginia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri, and 
Arkansas, to whom they explained the purpose of 
their visit to Washington, and presented copies of 
the “ report ” they brought with them. 

These gentlemen all united in testifying to the 
attachment of a large majority of the people of 
their respective States to the Union, and to their 
determination *to adhere to it, if a reasonable plan 
o£ compromise be adopted. 

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They concurred in saying that a plan which 
would have answered some weeks since, would be 
less likely to be satisfactory now, but did not dis- 
tinctly admit that any thing short of the “ Critten- 
den” Compromise would be; though your Com- 
mittee were led to think, as a result of their inter- 
view, that the propositions known as those of the 
“Border States” would prove sufficient to keep 
those States in the Union. 

This opinion has been confirmed, to a certain 
extent, by the intercourse your. Committee, have 
had with men of both parties and of 'both* sections, 
and by inquiry in other quarters. * 

On Friday evening, after many of the delega- 
tion had left for their homes, tho Committee had a 
most interesting meeting with Republican members 
of the Senate and House of Representatives to the 
number of sixty or seventy. 

On the side of the Committee, such reasons 
were adduced as had been employed previously 
in their interviews with the Senators from m New 
York, to impress upon the members, of Congress 
then present, the importance of responding to the 
sentiments contained in their Memorial by early 
and conciliatory action 

They were listened to with attention, and many 
members, both of the Senate and House, declared 
their conviction that the Republican party should 
unite as one man in tendering the “ olive branch ” 
to the South ; while others, differing *in opinion as 
to the best course to be taken, seemed nevertheless 

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to be animated by patriotic purposes. This ap- 
peared to be true generally of those who attended 
the meeting . 

. Your Committee returned to New York with- 
out much hope of any marked result from their 
mission. The difficulties that surround the ques- 
tion at issue are many, and apparently insurmount- 
able, perplexing the judgment, and baffling all the 
efforts of the legislator and the statesman, or 
threatening to do so. 

To investigate tlie causes of the present crisis, it 
would be necessary to trace the origin and progress 
of the different parties that have so long agitated 
the tWo sections of the country ; to survey the 
whole field of politics, and to weigh the influences 
exerted upon the public mind by the press and the 
pulpit. This is a task for others to perform. 

The impression is that there has been a growing 
sentiment of hostility on the part of the North to the 
Institutions of the South, indicated by the election 
to the Presidency of the candidate of the Republican 
party. To the Southern people this has a signifi- 
cance even greater than the circumstances under 
which the act ' was accomplished would seem to 
warrant. From the state of the northern mind 
in respect to slavery, the southern people are dis- 
posed to interpret the condition of the northern 
heart, and they are led to think that a feeling of 
hostility has arisen, and extends to the slave- 
holder himself. * Driven to the defence of an In- 
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stitution, the existence of which is providential 
in its origin — when 'regarded by the men of our 
day — an institution which they consider . vital to 
their welfare, the advantages of which are shared 
by the people of the whole country, while ilj-s evils 
are borne only by themselves, they cannot and 
will not brook the interference of other States in 
its treatment, and are aroused to passion in asserting 
its immunity from attack. 

United with the North by political bonds for 
purely political ends, the people of th^Sou$lern 
States have watched with jealousy the increasing 
power of the North, its growth in numbers and in- 
fluence ; and, underlying all their recent acts, is to 
be discovered an ill-grounded apprehension that the 
principles enunciated by the dominant party will 
result in the most aggressive action. _ \ , 

They have seen attempts on the part of the 
North to nullify, by legislation, constitutional pro- 
visions and congressional enactments for the security 
of their “ property ; ” a disposition to question the 
validity of judicial decisions, and a determination to 
deprive them of “ equal rights M in the territories — 
a claim, which, whether new or old, good or bad, is 
asserted by the South on the authority of the high- 
est tribunal of the land. 

All these things have been discussed in and out 
of Congress with a bitterness of spirit which has at 
last wrought a general alienatipn of feeling on the 
side of the South towards the people of the North. 
The contest has now, to some extent, passed out ofi 


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the Houses of Congress ; and States claiming to be 
“sovereign,” have assumed to vindicate for them- 
selves the “right*” which have been denied to 
their representatives ; to assert, with arms, if need 
be, their independence, ancT, at every hazard, to 
maintain a separate existence. 

' The events of the three months past are too 
fresh in the memory to require recapitulation, and 
it is not the business of your Committee to explain 
* the motives whict have caused the violent and pre- 
cipitate ^tioiyrf States far south of the border line. 
The historian will, perhaps, at no distant day, at- 
tempt to' cfr^W the line so difficult for human hands 
to trace, which separates honor from dishonor ; and 
show how loyally to the State may sometimes 
*be treason to the Constitution — that Constitution 
. whic^i so many have sworn to defend, and yet, with 
arms in their hands, have openly defied. 

Your Committee were called upon to recognize 
existing facts, to urge upon their own representa- 
tives a conciliatory course of action, such concessions 
on the part of the North as would comport with 
the honor and well-being of the country, and serve 
to restore a better feeling between all the members 
of the confederacy. 

Six States claim to have gone out of the Union 
by acts of secession, removing from Congress their 
Senators and Representatives ; thus disturbing, to a 
very great extent, the influence exerted by the 
South at large upon the legislation of the country. 


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The u Border States ” hesitate to follow, appar- 
ently desiring to continue in the Union if they can 
acquire such an adjustment of existing difficulties as 
will invite those that have gone out to return ; or, 
at least, secure to themselves the safe enjoyment of 
their domestic institutions, and an honorable posi- 
tion in the great Republic which has . been the 
source of their strength, as it is, and miist be, the 
home of their affection and pride. 

Your Committee are not prepared to say what 
modification of party platforms may have to* be 
made to secure the “Border States”, to. the Union, 
but they are unitedly of the opinion that the good 
of the country demands the ‘adoption of some meas- 
ures that will be adequate to the emergency. They 
are convinced that in conceding thus much no vio- 
lence will be done to the wishes of the people tat 
large, none to the heart of the patriot and the 
Christian. If the most that is asked were conceded, 
or asked with any expectation of ife being granted ; 
posterity may calmly await the ' issi^, without any 
fear that slavery will be extended over a foot of 
ground, or receive any accessions in number, which 
other conditions do not as effectually determine and 
control. 

As hereinbefore stated, your Committee have 
used the little influence they possess, in promoting 
the cause of peace and harmony. 

They have urged a spirit of patriotism, and** 
have been met, not infrequently, by the spirit of 


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party. The presses of the North, in the interest of 
party, exert a powerful influence, and restrain a 
generous disposition on the part of northern Repre- 
sentatives. 

But your Committee would not fail to mention 
that t he maintenance of the Government at the 
present time depends mainly upon the action of the 
Republican party, and* that harmony in its ranks is 
essential to its usefulness and very existence. 

* At the same time, the seizure of forts, arsenals, 
dockyards, cutters, and other property of the Fed- 
eral' Government, the invasion of one State by the 
troops of another, even prior to secession, with hos- 
tile intent, and. other acts alike unwarrantable, have 
served to exasperate Members of Congress who are 
engaged in the faithful performance of their duty ; 
and, these things enhance the difficulty and increase 
the danger. * 

Time is wanted to bring about necessary legisla- 
tion, and it is not to be concealed that the seces- 
sionists, prorated by ambition, perhaps in fulfil- 
ment of preconceived designs, have precipitated 
action for the express purpose of preventing such 
legislation. 

Under these circumstances, your Committee can 
only suggest that all possible means be used to 
neutralize £ke efforts of men at the North, who are 
acted on by views and purposes as hostile to the 
tlnion as those which govern the leaders of seces- 
sion; of men who encourage resistance to every 


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reasonable concession that conflicts with party dog- 
mas and party ends. 

Many Kepresentatives in Congress, patriotic 
and good men, need but to know the public senti- 
ment of the North, in order to be governed by it. 
Failing to acquire it through other channels, they 
look to the papers published at ’ the ISTortJi for 
guidance and direction. If immediate and good 
results are to be obtained, your Committee recom- 
mend that it be exerted through these organs 
wherever established. 

Kespectfully submitted, 

A. A. LOW, 

W. E. DODGE t 
E. H. GILLILAN, * 

E. E. MORGAN/ 

D. HENRY HAIGHT, 
THEODOSIUS BARTOW, 

F. S. WINSTON, 

HUGH AUCHINCLOSS, • 

ROBERT LENOX KENNEDY, 

R. C. ROOT, 

NATHANIEL SANDS, 

H. A. SMYTHE, 

F. S. LATHROP, 

JAMES HARPER, 

DANIEL LOW, 

ROYAL PHELPS, 

PETER COOPER, 

SAMUEL D. BABCOCK, 

W. G. HUNT, 

JAMES M. BROWN. 


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New York, February 8th, 1861. 






